Note: The publication process for a book opens the entire text to entry errors (aka blunders). These are errata found in the first/limited printing of the book that will be corrected by the second printing. To check your book for its printing, go to the copyright page immediately proceeding the Table of Contents. At the bottom of the page you will find integers going from 10 down. The printing is the last number in this series. If you see a 1, you have a first printing and need to make these corrections. From the second printing on, these corrections will be incorporated in the book. Sorry for this inconvenience.
Sincerely
Dr. Charles Ghilani
Page/location on page/correction
20, Equation (a): Drop the second summation and minus sign
after the second equal sign. It should read
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20, item 7, line 4: Change "2" in summation to n
67, Problem 4.14: Remove "for a single observation, and"
79, paragraph 3, line 4: Change "the Ron's" to "Ron's"
82, Problem 5.13, Change 5.12 to 3.12.
85, Equation (6.1): Add ")" before equality sign
95, Problem 6.6: Change equation for volume to V = ⅓πR2h, "SD" to "SR", change "diameter" to "radius..."
115, last line: Change "in" to "is"
122, Solution in Example 7.11: change 0.164 to 0.0164 in expression for σ.
139, first matrix: Remove 0 between columns 1 and 2 in row 6.
150, line 5: Change "(9.13)" to "(9.14)"
153, Equation (9.24): Change "cos z" to "S cos z"
155, Solution to Example 9.6: Change 37.39 ft to 37.45 ft.
161, last equation: Change "+ 152.3" to "= 152.3"
170, Table 10.3: Change "0.0176" to "0.0171"
170, Change "0.0363" to "0.0361" throughout page
180, Equation (11.19): Put a "2" in the blank parenthetical part of the first equation.
183, Equation (11.26): Add vertical ellipse between third and fourth row
188, Change Step 5 to "Repeat steps 3 and 4..."
226, equations in middle of page: change 0.07 to 0.107
227, last line: Change "-106.13" to "-0.68" and "-106.108" to "-0.658"
228, first line: Change "-106.072 and -106.144" to "-0.694" and -0.622"
236, Equation (14.6): Insert "-" before exponent
240, Step 1 (b): Change second half of equation from (xb - xa)2 to (yb - ya)2
250, Problem 14.2: Change "base" to "based"
263, Problem 14.7: Easting coordinate for station E should read "119,665.336" Replace the comma with a decimal point.
269, j21 element: Square UQ so that it is "UQ2" and j32 element: Remove "1" from "US12"
279, line 5: Change 31°25'55° to 31°25'55"
286, Equation in Step 2: Change 0.019 to 0.19
323, Table 17.1, ΔZ in "FA" should be -4355.9062 and Line "AF" should be 1116.4577 4596.1553 4355.9141
301, line 7, Change "that" to "than"
327, line 6 of Section 17.8: Change 16.1 to 17.1
329, line 20: Change "sy2" to "syz"
333, Problem 17.3: Delete D from first line of control station coordinates and place D under A in the following line of control coordinates.
339, Control Stations: Change B to C. In Figure P17.7, put an A by the triangle in the lower-right and an E by the dot to its immediate left.
342, Baseline EA, element 1,2 of the covariance matrix: Insert a negative sign so that it is −8.000E−7
415, line 8: Change sentence to read, "If we let R be the product of W and Qvv, the R matrix is both singular and idempotent."
415, line 10-11: Change to read, "(i.e., RR = R),
415, Equation (21.1) to: r11 + r22 + … + rmm = degrees of freedom
415, Equation (21.12) to:
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456, Equation (23.6): change "− DZ cos φi" in denominator to "+ DZ cos φi"
460, Equation (t): d2, change "+" to "−" before sin φi
460, Equation (z): d8, change "+" to "−" before sin φi
467, Equation (23.22), change νB to νAB and cos AzB to cot AzAB
484, line 13: Change "(23.18)" to "(23.16)"
484, change element 1,1 in dx to −(M+h) sin φ cos λ
488, A matrix: change element a22 to 0.02419 and element a25 to −0.2418
496, Example 25.1: Change 0.003 mm to 0.003 m
536, Matrix above Example B.1: Change element 2,1 to "−c"
542, First paragraph, first sentence: Delete word "of" so that it reads "Notice that through these..."
551, Fourth equation: Change element 1,2 to a "−9"
586, Equation (F.28): Change to
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